Previous Lightning Talk Schedule and Titles
Venue: Redpath Museum - Auditorium
| Time | Name | Department | Faculty | Lightning Talk Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12.00 - 12.15 | INTRODUCTION | |||
| 12.15 - 12.45 | CJ Li | Chemistry | SCI | Inventing New Chemistry for Sustainable Utilization of Natural Resources |
| Subhasis Ghoshal | Civil Eng & Applied Mechanics | ENG | Environmental Implications and Applications of Nanomaterials | |
| Daniel Varro | Electrical & Computer Eng | ENG | Live models for virtual analysis of sustainability | |
| Elena Bennett | Natural Resource Sciences | FAES | Working with communities to design multifunctional landscapes | |
| Anila Asghar | Education | EDU | Making sustainability sciences central to our pedagogical practice | |
| 12.45- 1.00 | PANEL DISCUSSION | |||
| 1.00- 1.30 | LUNCH | |||
| 1.30 - 2.00 | Catherine Potvin | Biology | SCI | Climate action in Canada |
| Jill Baumgartner | Epidemiology | MED | Measuring environmental exposures and their impacts on health and the environment | |
| Larry Lessard | Mechanical Eng | ENG | The Waste for Life Project | |
| Jörg Kienzle | Computer Science | SCI | Model-Driven Software Engineering and Sustainability | |
| Tony Ricciardi | Biology | SCI | The sustainability of globally accelerating rates of biological invasion | |
| 2.00 - 2.15 | PANEL DISCUSSION | |||
| 2.15 | COFFEE | |||
Venue: Redpath Museum - Auditorium
| Time | Name | Department | Faculty | Lightning Talk Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.00 - 3.15 | INTRODUCTION | |||
| 3.15 - 4.00 | Peter Grutter | Physics | SCI | Characterization of Energy Materials at the Nanoscale |
| Audrey Moores | Chemistry | SCI | Sustainable design of nanoparticles | |
| Raynald Gauvin | Mining and Materials Engineering | ENG | New Revolutionary Electron Microscopy to Characterize critical metals and Lithium based materials for a greener future. | |
| Nigel Roulet | Geography | SCI | Carbon stewardship and northern development | |
| Jeff Bergthorson | Mechanical Engineering | ENG | Burning metals for zero-carbon power | |
| Vedat Verter | Operations Management | MGMT | The Impact of Regulation on Product Recovery | |
| Chris Barrington-Leigh | Economics | ARTS | Irreversible choices in the urban built environment | |
| Madhav Badami | Urban Planning/MSE | ENG | Urban Transport Research in India and North America | |
| 4.00- 4.15 | PANEL DISCUSSION | |||
| 4.15- 4.30 | COFFEE | |||
| 4.30 - 5.20 | Gregor Fussman Mathieu Blanchette Melania Cristescu |
Biology Computer Science Biology |
SCI | Multiple stressors on aquatic ecosystems: solutions from experimental ecology and genomics |
| Sylvie de Blois | Plant Science | FAES | Sustaining biodiversity and ecological flows | |
| Brian Robinson | Geography | SCI | Ecosystem services, development, and livelihoods | |
| Brian Leung | Biology | SCI | Socio-ecological forecasting and integrative modeling | |
| Benjamin Fung | Information Studies | ARTS | Data Mining for Sustainable Smart Cities | |
| Michael Jemtrud | Architecture | ENG | Practices of Urban Resiliency | |
| George Demopoulos | Materials Engineering | ENG | Nanostructured electrodes for next generation solar energy conversion and storage cells via sustainable and scalable solution processing | |
| Dror Etzion | Strategy and Organizations/MSE | MGMT | How to manage grand challenges | |
| 5.20 - 5.35 | PANEL DISCUSSION | |||
| 5.35 | COFFEE | |||
Venue: MacDonald Campus - Faculty Lounge
| Time | Name | Department | Faculty | Lightning Talk Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11.45 - 12.00 | INTRODUCTION | |||
| 12.00 - 12.30 | Hamid Akbarzadeh | Bioresource Engineering | FAES | Bioinspired Multifunctional and Multiphysical Materials for Sustainable Energy Production |
| Joann Whalen | Natural Resource Sciences | FAES | Soil as a resource for sustaining future food and fuel demands | |
| Don Smith | Plant Science | FAES | Opportunities in the Phytomicrobiome (N2 fixation and beyond) | |
| Olivia Wilkins | Plant Science | FAES | Reprogramming regulatory networks in cereal crops to improve stress tolerance | |
| Timothy Geary | Institute of Parasitology | FAES | Sustainable parasite control in animal agriculture | |
| Sergio Burgos | Animal Science | FAES | Precision Feeding for Sustainable Milk Production | |
| Elsa Vasseur | Animal Science | FAES | Systems Biology for Sustainable Agriculture | |
| Benoit Boulet | Electrical and Computer Engineering | ENG | Transport Electrification: CFI Autonomous EV Lab and Mac Campus Electric Shuttle Bus Project | |
| 12.30 - 12.45 | PANEL DISCUSSION | |||
| 12.45- 1.15 | LUNCH | |||
| 1.15 - 1.45 | Paul J. Thomassin | Natural Resource Sciences | FAES | Integrating Bio-Physical and Economic Models to address Questions of Climate Change and Natural Capital |
| Mark Lefsrud | Bioresource Engineering | FAES | Food Security in Northern Canada (FoodSINC) | |
| Vikram Bhatt | Architecture | ENG | Sustainability and Food Security: From projects to practice. | |
| Murray Humphries | Natural Resource Sciences | FAES | Northern Canada’s largest and least recognized sustainable development project. | |
| Kyle Elliott | Natural Resource Sciences | FAES | Sustainability in a Changing Arctic Ocean | |
| Nicoleta Uzea | Natural Resource Sciences | FAES | Fostering Multi-Stakeholder Co-operation and Coordination for a Sustainable Food System | |
| Richard Janda | Law | LAW | Transforming Social Norms in the Anthropocene | |
| 1.45 - 2.00 | PANEL DISCUSSION | |||
| 2.00 | COFFEE | |||
Venue: Redpath Museum - Auditorium
| Time | Name | Department | Faculty | Lightning Talk Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.00 - 3.15 | INTRODUCTION | |||
| 3.15 - 3.45 | Chris Regan | Economics | ARTS | How channeling both Adam Smith and Bob Barker can improve the environment |
| Graham Macdonald | Geography | SCI | Cross-scale perspectives on agriculture and sustainability | |
| Nii Addy | Strategy & Organization | MGMT | Food convergent innovation for sustainable health and wealth | |
| Susan Gaskin | Civil Engineering | ENG | Sustainability of water resources and the hydrosocial cycle | |
| Adrian Vetta | Mathematics and Statistics | SCI | Mechanism design for environmental sustainability | |
| Parisa Ariya | Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences | SCI | Natural airborne particles: understanding and implications in climate and health sciences | |
| 3.45 - 4.00 | PANEL DISCUSSION | |||
| 4.00- 4.15 | COFFEE | |||
| 4.15 - 4.45 | Nate Quitoriano | Mining | ENG | Power generation with semi-conductors and thermal electrics |
| Tomislav Friscic | Chemistry | SCI | Chemistry 2.0 or a new system of chemical synthesis | |
| Sylvain Coulombe | Chemical Engineering | ENG | Sustainable ammonia (NH3) synthesis | |
| Sasha Omanovic | Chemical Engineering | ENG | Sustainable and green production of hydrogen and ammonia. | |
| Kevin Manaugh | Geography | SCI | Cities, sustainability, and well-being | |
| Jaye Ellis | Law / MSE | LAW | Governance for sustainability: the science-policy interface | |
| 4.45 - 5.00 | PANEL DISCUSSION | |||
| 5.00 | COFFEE | |||
Venue: Redpath Museum - Auditorium
| Time | Name | Department | Faculty | Lightning Talk Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.00 - 3.15 | INTRODUCTION | |||
| 3.15 - 4.15 | Dominic Frigon | Civil Engineering | ENG | Beyond wastewater treatment: engineering microbial communities for resource recovery |
| Nathalie Tufenkji | Chemical Engineering | ENG | Nano and biotechnologies for sustainability | |
| Hans Larsson | Biology/Redpath Museum | SCI | Novel ecotoxicology partnerships and McGill's northern reaches | |
| Margaret Kalacksa | Geography | SCI | Sustainability of water resources and diversity - a remote sensing approach | |
| Gail Chmura | Geography | SCI | Blue Carbon increases sustainability of coastlines and our climate while helping fund ecological restoration | |
| Bernhard Lehner Jim Nicell |
Geography Civil Engineering |
SCI ENG |
Large-scale river and lake modeling to screen for water contamination and other eco-hydrological risks | |
| Andy Gonzalez | Biology | SCI | Evolutionary rescue and the sustainability of biodiversity | |
| Andrew Hendry | Biology / Redpath Museum |
SCI | Rapid evolution shapes ecosystem services and sustainability | |
| David Wachsmuth | Urban Planning | ENG | Can cities save the planet? The global politics of local sustainability | |
| Tim Merlis | Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences | SCI | Geoengineering? | |
| Peter Brown | Natural Resource Sciences / MSE | FAES | TBC | |
| Philippe St-Jean | Design Services | Facilities | McGill as a Living Campus | |
| Camille Ouellet Dallaire | Geography | SCI | Creating space for sustainability literacy outside the classroom | |
| 4.15 - 4.30 | PANEL DISCUSSION | |||
| 4.30 | LIGHTNING EVENT COCKTAIL | |||